Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a bilateral meeting with Defence Minister of Israel Mr Benjamin Gantz in New Delhi on Thursday. A wide range of issues concerning bilateral, regional and defence industrial cooperation were discussed during the meeting. The two Ministers reviewed the existing military-to-military activities which have increased despite the challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic. They discussed ways to increase cooperation in all domains with a focus on Research & Development in future technologies and defence co-production. Both the Ministers acknowledged mutual security challenges and their convergences on a number of strategic and defence issues. They expressed commitment to…
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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that we are in the age of Amrit Kaal. The next 25 years are crucial to establish India as a knowledge economy that is committed to global welfare. He was addressing the inaugural session on the 2nd day of National School Education Ministers’ Conference and urged that as we prepare for the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century, we must leverage technology to strengthen our education & skilling ecosystem The Minister highlighted 5+3+3+4 approach of NEP covering pre-school to secondary, emphasis on ECCE, teacher training & adult education, integration of skill development with…
Renowned poet, lyricisit and screenwriter Prasoon Joshi has said that film making should not be the job of a ‘himmatwala’ and instead it should be the job of someone who has talent. Addressing a Master Class virtually at the 17th Mumbai International Film Festival MIFF 2022, he said “we talk about diversity, but how will diversity come unless film making is democratized. If the same set of select few keep making films, we will keep getting films with similar linear narrative.” He added that we will get real films only when people coming from diverse background begin making films, and this is how our…
Garment worker abuse in India’s factories has intensified due to fashion brands’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Asia Floor Wage Alliance and Society for Labour and Development. It contains collected testimonies from90 women in 31 factories across three major garment-producing hubs in India: Delhi NCR, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. These factories supply, or have recently supplied, to at least 12 global fashion brands and retailers: American Eagle, ASDA, C&A, Carrefour, H&M, JD Sports, Kohl’s, Levi Strauss & Co., Marks & Spencer, Primark, Tesco and VF Corporation (and its portfolio…
The global network International Press Institute (IPI) mourns the death of the French journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, who was tragically killed by Russian shelling in the city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine on May 30. Leclerc-Imhoff had been a cameraman and reporter for the national TV station BFMTV since 2016. We express our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. Leclerc-Imhoff had been covering the evacuation efforts in the Luhansk region, which has become a focal point of fighting by Russian forces in recent weeks. According to BFMTV, Leclerc-Imhoff was following a humanitarian operation in an armored vehicle when he…
by NJ Thakuria The killing of members belonging to the banned United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent) in their hideouts somewhere in Myanmar-China border areas and the subsequent irresponsible media coverage glorifying the brutal acts of separatist Ulfa (I) leaders really annoyed the majority population of northeast India. The live streaming of militant leaders by many satellite news channels offering sufficient space to justify the murder of Assamese youths in their camps shocked the society. Now demands are being raised to restrict the media outlets propagating the culture of violence in the name of an armed freedom movement run by…
In the face of Covid-19 headwinds, India’s youngest state of Telangana has logged a 26% increase in IT exports for FY 2021-22, totalling more than Rs. 1.83 lakh crore (US$ 23.62 billion) in exports. It also reported 149,506 new jobs created during FY 2021-22, bringing total employment in the sector to over 7.78 lakh, a 24% YoY increase. According to Nasscom, Telangana alone added one-third of the 4.5 lakh new IT jobs created in the country in FY22. The state also outpaced the country’s IT export growth of slightly more than 17% in FY 2021-22. In FY 2020-21, the state recorded IT exports…
In order to increase private participation in the space sector even further, the government will soon unveil a new space policy that could lead to the rise of India’s own “SpaceX-like ventures,” said Mr. Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Advisor. In 2022, the space sector is witnessing what the information technology sector experienced in the 1990s, according to Mr. Sood. A large number of satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) have the potential to transform the space sector. The government will encourage the private sector to manufacture satellites for a variety of applications ranging from healthcare, agriculture, urban development and property tax estimation.…
According to a report by the Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE), financial technology or fintech lending companies doubled disbursements in FY 2021-22, giving out a total of 26.6 million number of loans worth Rs. 18,000 crore (US$ 2.32 billion). Nearly three-fourth of the loan value disbursed by FACE member companies in FY 2021-22 was on their own balance sheet, with the remainder made in collaboration with other regulated entities, typically non-banking financial companies (NBFCs). Maharashtra led the pack with 16% of disbursals, while the southern states collectively accounting for 44% of the uptake. Data also revealed that 98% of loans were classified as personal…
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the registration of cooperative societies as ‘Buyers’ on Government e-Marketplace (GeM) platform. This will enable the cooperative societies to access more than 45 Lakh vendors on a single platform and to follow a transparent, economic and efficient procurement system. Under the leadership of Union Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah, Ministry of Cooperation is encouraging Multi State Cooperative Societies and Cooperative Societies registered under State Cooperative Acts to join the GeM platform for the benefit of their members and hopes that more and more cooperatives Societies will get benefit of…